昭

Translingual

Han character

昭 (radical 72 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日尸竹口 (ASHR), four-corner 6706₂, composition ⿰日召)

1. bright, luminous
2. illustrious

Derived characters

• 照

References

• KangXi: page 493, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13855
• Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1504, character 9
• Unihan data for U+662D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

昭 (Yale chiu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

昭 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka)

Proper noun

昭 (hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

昭 (hangeul 소, 조, revised so, jo, McCune-Reischauer so, cho, Yale so, co)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

昭 (pinyin xià (xia4), zhāo (zhao1), Wade-Giles hsia⁴, chao¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昭 (chiêu, chiu)